DEPARTMENT OF ENCOURAGEMENT, 
COLONIZATION AND INDUSTRY 

MEXICO 



REGULATIONS FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL 
MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY 






DEPARTMENT OF ENCOURAGEMENT, 
COLONIZATION AND INDUSTRY 

MEXICO 



REGULATIONS FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL 
MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY 



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MEXICA 



PRESS OF W. F. ROBERTS 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 



DEPARTMENT OF ENCOURAGEMENT, 
COLONIZATION AND INDUSTRY. 

MEXICO. 



REGULATIONS FOR THE 
TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY 



Article i. By order of the President of the 
Republic a "Technological Museum of Industry " 
is established in the Department of Encouragement. 

The Museum shall be directly subordinate to 
the Second Division of said Department. 

Article 2. The purposes and attributes of the 
Museum shall be as follows : 

c/f. To collect samples of raw materials of 
minerals, plants and animals, which may be pro- 
duced in the country and furnished by the pro- 
ducers or improvers themselves^ with the largest 
number possible of data, whether such materials 
may be employed either in the national or foreign 
industry. Such samples shall be held on perma- 
nent exhibition. 

IB. To put near each special series of raw 
materials show cases indicating the articles which 
may be manufactured with them and find con- 



sumption as well in national as in foreign markets, 
and lists of commission merchants and mercantile 
firms dealing in such products of manufacture. 

C. To make up geographical maps of the Re- 
public indicating, with conventional colors, the 
places where the raw materials of the different 
groups are being found and cultivated. 

T). To exhibit a map of the Republic, always 
to be up to date, in which the diverse maritime, 
fluviatic and other routes of transportation are 
accurately indicated. 

E. To collect,for the knowledge of the public, 
data in regard to the rates of freight from the 
place of production to any place in the Republic 
or in a foreign country, as also of the duties which 
the raw materials pay at their importation into 
any country consuming them. 

F, To establish in the same locality a Techno- 
logical Library, formed with the most minute cata- 
logues, with price lists of the principal manufac- 
turers of all nations, and especially of those who 
manufacture machinery fit to convert the raw 
materials produced in the country into the best 
elaborated articles. This Library shall always be 
up to date, that is to say, that care shall be taken 
continually to receive the last editions of each cata- 
logue. The classification to be adopted by this 
Library shall be such as to facilitate consultation. 



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Article 3. To parties applying in due form 
the Museum shall communicate the data which 
they may require in regard to the prices, places of 
production, owners, freights, etc., of some raw 
material, as also the addresses of foreign manufac- 
turers of machinery or industrial products, but it 
shall not transfer to the public samples of the raw 
materials held on exhibition, nor catalogues either 
of its Library. It may, nevertheless, make trans- 
fer of catalogues in the special case mentioned in 
Article 7. 

Article 4. The Museum shall publish and 
gratuitously distribute a catalogue of the products 
which it may have on exhibition, principally to 
contain the following data: 

I. Name of the raw material. 

11. Name of the producer. 

III. Address of the same. 

IV. Place of production. 

V. Quantity which he may produce. 
VI. Price at the place of production. 
Vll. Cost of transportation to the nearest 
railway station, with mention of its 
name. 
VIII. Principal employments of the raw ma- 
terial. 



Article 5. After application to the Depart- 
ment of Encouragement and approl^ation being 
granted by the same, the producers of raw mate- 
rials, or the manufacturers of machinery, may 
deposit in the Museum samples of such raw ma- 
terials or specimens of machinery, which samples 
and specimens shall be distributed by the Museum 
in the form it may deem most conducive to realize 
its aims. 

Article 6. The Library of the Museum shall 
be at the gratuitous disposal of the public during 
the regular office hours. 

The employes of the Library shall be obliged 
to verbally translate .to the visitors those parts of 
the catalogues which the latter may indicate to 
them. 

Article 7. Whenever there should exist in 
the Library duplicates of some of the catalogues, 
they may be lent for a term not exceeding eight 
days, to the party who applies for it in due form 
and under one of the following conditions : 

d/?. Deposit in money, at the Library, for the 
value which the Second Division may fix for the 
catalogue ; said deposit shall remain to the benefit 
of the Museum in case of the catalogue not being 
returned in the term designated in this article. 

*B. Delivery of bond of a party considered 



idoneous by the Second Division, by which the 
bondsman guarantees that the catalogue will be 
returned within the term mentioned, or, should it 
not be returned, that he will pay its value at the 
presentation of the receipt given for the catalogue. 

Article 8. The Museum will thankfully accept 
the cooperation of the Scientific Societies and per- 
sons of good will, who, in view of its purposes, 
may wish to contribute to its development and 
progress, presenting to it technical treatises on 
raw materials, data of importance, etc. When 
such treatises should be considered useful, they 
will be published in special bulletins, which shall 
be issued whenever it may be deemed necessary. 

Article 9. The Museum may undertake the 
analysis or technical examination of raw materials 
when the interested parties apply for it, and the 
latter shall pay for such work the fee previously 
agreed upon. 

Article 10. The Museum will proceed to form 
collections of raw materials, with their respective 
data of information, in order to send them to the 
Consulates of Mexico abroad, where they shall 
remain on gratuitous exhibition. 

It may also, in the same way, form collections 
for the purpose of presenting them at the Interna- 



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tional Exhibitions in which Mexico may partici- 
pate. 

Article ii. The Museum shall not be allowed 
to act as commissioner for the despatch of mercan- 
tile transactions between the producer and the 
buyer. Its actions shall be restrained to put both 
parties in direct connection, providing them only 
with the indispensable information to enable them 
to enter into subsequent arrangements. 




